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ESA
2000
Springer
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Polygon Decomposition for Efficient Construction of Minkowski Sums
Several algorithms for computing the Minkowski sum of two polygons in the plane begin by decomposing each polygon into convex subpolygons. We examine different methods for decompo...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Eyal Flato, Dan Halperin
ESA
1998
Springer
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External Memory Algorithms
Abstract. Data sets in large applications are often too massive to t completely inside the computer's internal memory. The resulting input output communication or I O between ...
Jeffrey Scott Vitter
DIALM
2000
ACM
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Efficient memoryless protocol for tag identification
This paper presents an efficient collision resolution protocol and its variations for the tag identification problem, where an electromagnetic reader attempts to obtain within its...
Ching Law, Kayi Lee, Kai-Yeung Siu
DIALM
2000
ACM
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Energy-efficient randomized routing in radio networks
Koji Nakano, Stephan Olariu
COCO
2000
Springer
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On the Complexity of Intersecting Finite State Automata
We consider the problem of testing whether the intersection of a collection of k automata is empty. The straightforward algorithm for solving this problem runs in time k where is...
George Karakostas, Richard J. Lipton, Anastasios V...
CIAC
2000
Springer
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An Efficient Algorithm for the Approximate Median Selection Problem
We present an efficient algorithm for the approximate median selection problem. The algorithm works in-place; it is fast and easy to implement. For a large array it returns, with ...
Sebastiano Battiato, Domenico Cantone, Dario Catal...
FUN
2010
Springer
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The Magic of a Number System
We introduce a new number system that supports increments with a constant number of digit changes. We also give a simple method that extends any number system supporting increments...
Amr Elmasry, Claus Jensen, Jyrki Katajainen
CIAC
2003
Springer
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Differential Approximation for Some Routing Problems
We study vehicle routing problems with constraints on the distance traveled by each vehicle or on the number of vehicles. The objective is to minimize the total distance traveled b...
Cristina Bazgan, Refael Hassin, Jérôm...
ASIAN
2003
Springer
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Information Flow Security for XML Transformations
Abstract. We provide a formal definition of information flows in XML transformations and, more generally, in the presence of type driven computations and describe a sound technique...
Véronique Benzaken, Marwan Burelle, Giusepp...
ASPDAC
2001
ACM
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Towards the logic defect diagnosis for partial-scan designs
Loical defect diagnosis is a critical yet challenging process in VLSI manufacturing. It involves the identification of the defect spots in a logic IC that fails testing. In the la...
Shi-Yu Huang